Daniël Bos

I've spoken to my friend the butcher about this. The above is Not a butchers' block.... A proper butchers' block is constructed so you use it "on the end grain" so with all the bits of wood standing on end. It's also supposed to have squares of wood, arranged in a clever way so that no matter how hard the cleaver cleaves, a forced split can not "run". (I believe it's achieved by turning the squares so the curves of their grain are "back to back"?) It needs to be used on the end grain as this protects the finely honed edge of the butchers' knife/cleaver. as it comes down, the end grain can part slightly to accommodate the edge where a cut onto a "sideways grain" board would blunt the blade far quicker. According to my friend the butcher...

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It's quite bad form to assume things like you are doing in the above post in my opinion. So he/she sells cheap logs, of species that many people see as inferior, but how is that any different from selling B&Q brand chainsaws? Yes it's cheap, and it may or may not be of a lesser quality but that doesn't make it wrong to sell the product does it? I'd imagine Waitrose are happy to have the likes of tescos value to compete with, it makes the contrast starker. Same thing with logs, if you intend to sell a premium product for a premium price, you'll do better if the customer has tried an inferior product first/as well.

There is place for both tesco value and waitrose finest on the highstreet, I know what I'd rather have.

"Large loads if hardwood (changed to soft a post or two later) processed or not" Reads to me like he wants firewood, logs or cord?

Thought about this for a second, I'd make them smaller for fear of having too much leverage? It's only plastic it's attached too after all and spikes so big could exert enough force to snap that plastic after not much work?

Nice effort Pete, I like the ingenuity. As for overloading the saw: ofcourse you can't stall it, it has a centrifugal clutch? You can burn that clutch though... If you've found it's better for you this way then that's great, but I reckon you ought to look at your sharpening technique. If it's useable with teeth like that you must have a blunt chain?

As perfect boards are not an issue for you, but production speed is, could you mount a circular saw just ahead of the band, on the "in-going" side? You could mount it on a spring loaded pivot so it follows the log and set it so it cuts just bark. Could be done cheaply and circular saw blades are not too expensive and easy to change. This is presuming all the while that most wear/damage is from where the band meets grit as it goes into the log?

The tensioner has a conical pin. If you adjust the chain tension and then tighten the nuts whilst they were still fairly loose, it forces the fatter part of the pin in more which tightens the chain more. So you need to only have the bar nuts just loose enough to be able to move the bar enough to adjust it.

EPIC But could you not have felled it straight into the chipper?

I went out at half four to check on some stock. Walked back up home and it rained so hard, never seen ought like it. Not too much wind, but two inches of rain in half an hour or so.

Should that read the old Chinese art of ratatouille?

Just drill it through and put a bolt+wingnut on it. Or find a stick of the right size and shape.

Is that an action shot of the process of felling a tree onto a police van?

A beetle is a hand tool much like a mallet. Used for driving wooden stakes into the ground when hedgelaying.

I'd pay you a pint and a packet of crisps for a stick of 10"dia or more by at least four foot, for making beetle heads. But only if you were on my way anyway.

engelbert strauss % SALE % Get good reviews including on here and are currently on offer as there's a newer model. You might have to try different colours to find your size (if still in stock)

Erm, actually it is! (Well, sort of anyway...) As a guest in this country the language fascinates me, and I take great pride in being "not that bad" at it... Wikipedia: "The usual plural in English is "octopuses" (pronounced /ˈɒktəpʊsɪz/), but the Greek plural form "octopodes" (pronounced /ɒkˈtɒpədiːz/) is sometimes used, though less frequently than in the past.[47] The form "octopi", as if the word were a Latin second-declension noun, is generally considered incorrect,[42][47][48][49][50][51] but is in fact used, so that it is registered by the descriptivist Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Dictionary, which lists "octopuses" and "octopi", in that order, and Webster's New World College Dictionary, which lists plurals in the order: "octopuses", "octopi", and "octopodes". The Oxford English Dictionary (2008 Draft Revision)[52] also lists "octopuses", "octopi", and "octopodes", in that order, labelling "octopodes" as rare and noting that "octopi" derives from the misapprehension that octōpus is a second-declension Latin noun and stating that, if the word were native to Latin, it would be third declension octōpēs (plural: octōpedes) after the pattern of pēs ("foot", plural pedēs).[53] "

Apologies, I posted a picture to see if I could, (having an argument with the app.....) but now I can't delete it! Sorry

Unfortunately, you're wrong. That was how the old policy was supposed to work. The new policy does not allow for sending any stihl products, full stop!

I just put a new Woodburner in a yurt so no building regs etc to worry about. I went and got a single 6m length of 2mm thick 154dia T304 stainless. Super strong, will never wear/rust, easy to weld and being one piece it needs no structural support of any sort.

Trees were part of a larger group, some severe weather removed surrounding trees and lower branches of these remaining ones, reaction growth shaped the trees thus? I'm far too young and youthful to have been aware in 1983 though...

Can't post a link for some reason (app freezes when I try?) But here's the URL. http://www.ethicalwares.com/vegan-vegetarian-non-leather-footwear/safety-footwear-vegan-vegetarian-non-leather/vegan-chainsaw-non-leather-black-boots.html

It's not a requirement to carry an ID, but: An establishment such as a supermarket (or indeed a scrap yard) may (and in this case must) refuse to trade with you if you cannot provide one. For example if I were to buy a bottle of whisky at the local, they'd have to ask me for my if on account of my youthful looks (honestly, I look that young....) even though I have been of legal drinking age for a while. If I cannot produce one, they must refuse to sell. So though it is not a legal requirement to carry one always, it can be legally required to produce one.

I only stake when needed if there's any weaknesses or wobbliness. Then at the end of the day I stake maybe every 10ft or so just to be sure, after which it'll take some serious battering. Then at the end of the hedge I stake the lot, moving the earlier stakes out if needed or cutting them right short if they're "strategically essential" to hold a particular bit. I find this gives me the nicest line, especially as it's not often dead-straight but weaving around trees, stiles and such like.